That’s the intention here. To raise the bar.
Raise it on our own truths.
Our own lives.
Ourselves.
When the scales have been tipped, we dive in, leap forward and move towards what’s true, beckoning and asking to be seen.
Raising the bar in our life is a journey.
Sharing it fuels and lights the way.
Welcome to the Blog.
Some days I feel more like a firefighter than an attorney. The phone rings off the hook. There is a constant barrage of emails. Letters to read and write. A stack of files that have to be reviewed. My day is filled with fires that must be put out. A while ago Jan, my...
It was in a social studies class my junior year in high school that I worked out a mathematical formula about marriage. If 1 + 1 does not equal 1 then divide. At the ripe old age of 16 it was pretty clear to me, if two people cannot function as one then it's better to...
Recently I met with a client and his wife. I had been putting off the meeting for a week because I didn't like what I was going to have to tell him. A few minutes before they arrived I was reviewing his file hoping to find something that I had overlooked- that I was...
What are the difference between surviving and thriving? Before you read the rest of this post, think for a few minutes on what are the difference between the two for you. Our lives are so multifaceted that it is a mistake to conclude that life is either one or the...
I was looking at an amazing book called Far Out, A Space Time Chronicle. It’s a large coffee table book full of phenomenal photos of deep space taken by the Hubble Telescope. We could see the the same images as the Hubble Telescope if our iris was three feet wide....
Whether you are a sole practitioner, a partner or shareholder, or you work for a law firm, there is a lot that goes into running a successful business. While there is always a bottom line to be met, there is more than one bottom line. The phrase "the bottom line"...
It is estimated that we think between 60,000 and 70,000 thoughts a day. Thank God all the thoughts I have throughout the day are not recorded. If someone were to read them I would run screaming out of fear of what they would think of me. If I was unknowingly given a...
6 years ago the minister of my church asked me a question that had a big effect on my law practice. He asked “What do you have faith in?” I asked him: “Do you mean about God?“ He said he was not asking about God, the bible or anything religious. He continued “We have...
We all learned in law school about the theory of agency: how one individual can obligate another through either clear or apparent authority. It's essentially about cause and effect. Throughout our day we are constantly affected by causes: a phone call from an upset...
The other day I was getting ready to prep a client for her deposition. I reviewed the facts of the case from the first time we met. I looked over the police report, witness statements and photos. I reviewed her medical records for problems- and there were a lot. ...
Are you ready to integrate your work life and your personal life to make the best overall life possible for you?
Wendy Votroubek,
LegalNursePDX.com
And all shall abide by these three fiduciary duties: full and frank disclosure, duty of care and loyalty; but the greatest of these is loyalty. While it doesn’t have the ring of one of the most often quoted lines in the bible: "And now abides faith, hope, love, these...
Have you ever been lied to? I have. It makes me angry and sad. Lies destabilize what they touch and can wreak havoc in a relationship. I discovered that I was being lied to earlier this year. In fact, it had been going on for so long it was hard to believe I hadn’t...
When I decided to go to law school it wasn’t because I had a burning desire to be a lawyer, right wrongs, or fight for the little guy. I’d graduated from college with a history degree, then moved to San Diego to try and figure life out at the ripe old age of 24. After...